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I THE GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON A Man To His Mate B y J. ALLEN DUNN COPYRIGHT BOBAS MERRILL CO. C H A P T IR X —Continuad. — 11— Land asonar or later, meant to take her. willing or unwilling. Re had ■aid ao, nona too cavortly, that very ovonlng. And. tí Italuey meant to Hand between her and Iarod as a pro lector, Lund would accept hint la that character only aa the girl's lover and his rival. For the time being, the safety of the Karlnk and the successful carry ing out o f the purpose of the trip took all o f Lund's attention and energy. Twice he had been thwarted by the weather from gleaning his golden har vest, and it began to look as If the third attempt might he no more for tunate. "The Karluk’s stout," he sold once, "but she ain't built for the Arctic. If We git nipped badly she'll go like an eggshell.” "And then w hat?" Rainey asked. "Git the g o ld ! That's what we come for. If we have to make sleds an’ use the hunters for a dorg-teare." He laughed Indomitably. “ We'll make a man o f you ylt, Rainey, afore we git back." Lund was snatching sleep In scrnps. seeking always to feel a way toward the position of the Island through the Ice that continually boflflod progress. Against all opposition he forced his way until, Just after sunset one night, as the dusk swept down, he gave a shout and pointed to a fitful flare over ■the port bow. Rainey thought It the aurora, but Lund laughed at him. “ It’s the crater atop the Island,” he said. “ Nothin’ dangerous. Heg'lar lighthouse. Now, hoys,” he went on, his deep voice ringing with exhilara tion, “ there’s gold in sigh t! Whistle for a change of weather, every moth er's son of y o u !” The deck was soon crowded. On the previous trip the schooner had ap proached the Island from a different angle, but the men were swift to acknowledge the glow o f the volcano as the expected landfall. Lund re mained on deck, nnd It was late be fore any of the crew turned In. Rainey, during his watch, saw the mountain fire-pulse, glowing and wink ing like the eye of a Cyclops. Its gleam reflected In the eyes o f the watchers who were about to Invade the Island and rob It of its golden sands. The change of weather came about three In the morning, though not as Lund had hoped. A sudden wind ma terialized from the north, stiffening the canvas with its Ice-laden breath, glazing the schooner wherever mols- “W e’ ll Make a Man of You Yit, Rainey, Afore We Git Back.” ture dripped, bringing np an angry scud o f clouds that fought with (he moon. The sea appeared to have thickened. The Karluk went sluggish ly, as If she was sailing iu a sea of treacle. C H A P T E R XI. Smoke. When Rainey came on deck the next morning he. found the schooner float ing In n snail lagoon that made the confer o f ». floe. The water In It was slush, halt Solid. Main and fore were close furled, the heudsulls also, and the Knrluk was nosing against the far end o f the rapidly diminishing basin. The wind was still lively. A deep hum of bursting surf under- toned all other noises and. prisoned as she was. the schooner and her floe were sweeping slowly toward the land In the grip o f s current rather than before the gusty wind. Lund came uj> within the honr and stood blinking at the brilliance. He seemed well satisfied with the (■rospret. “ Ilad breakfastT” hr askrd Ralnry. sow then: “ All right. W ell git the men a ft." He kebosrod m order, tod aeon every one came trooping, to gather lu two groups either aide of the cabin akyllgbt. Their fucea were eager with the proximity of the gold, yet half sullen ta they waited to bear what Lund had to say. Since the attempt against him Lund had aald nothing about their shares. They acknowl edged him aa master, but they still re belled I d spirit. “ There's the island.” said Land. “ We'll make It afore sundown. The beach Is there, waitin’ for us to dig It up. It’ll be some Job. I don't rerkos It’s frozen hard, on'y crusted. If It Is we’ ll bust the crust with dynamite. But we got to hop to It. There'll be unother cold spell after this one peters out an' the i^ext is like to be perma nent. I want the gold washed out afore then, an' us well down the strait. It's up to you to hump yore- selves. au’ I'll help the humpin'. "W e’ll cradle most o f the stuff aa'. If they's time, we'll flume the silt tall- In's for the flue dust. Providin' wr cau git a fall of water. There'll be plenty for all hands ta do. An' the shares go as first fixed. I ain't ex pectin’ you to do the dlggln' an’ not git a plucb or two of the dust." The men's faces lighted, and they shuffled about, looking at one another with grins o f relief. "No cheers?” asked Lund Ironically. “ Wall, I hardly expected enny. Hnn- s<ai, you'll be one o f the foremen. with pay accordin'. Demltig.” “ I can't dig," said the hunter trucu lently. "Neither can Beale, with his ribs." “ You've got a sweet nerve," said Lund. “ I reckon you’ve won enough to be sure o f yore shares. If the boys pay up. Enough for yon to do some dlggln' in yore pockets for Beale. His ribs 'ud he whole If you hadn’t started the bolshevik stunt. But I'll find something for both of you to do. Don’t let that worry you none. “ We’ ve got mercury aboard some where," Lund continued, to Rainey, when the men had dispersed, far more cheerful than they had gathered. “ We’ll use that for concentration In the film riffles. Hausen'll have rock ers mode thnt’ll catch the big stuff. If the worst comes to the worst, we'll lond up the old hooker with the pay dirt an’ wash It out on the way home. I’ll strip that heaoh down to bedrock If I have to work the toes an’ fingers off ’em.” By noon the schooner was glazed In us firmly ns a toy model that Is mounted In a glass sea. The wind blew Itself entirely out, but the cur rent bore them steadily on to the clamorous shore, where the swells were creating promontories, bays, cliffs and chasms In the plled-up con fusion o f the floes pounding on the rocks, breaking up or sliding atop one another In noisy confusion. The marble-whiteness of the Ire masses was set off by the blues and soft violets o f th.Ir shadows, and by pearly sheen wherever the planes caught the light at a proper slant for the play o f prisms. Beautiful ns It was, the sight was fearful to Rainey, in common with the crew'. Only Lund surveyed it nonchalantly. "It's bustin’ up fast," he said. “ AH we need Is a little luck. If we ain't got thnt there’s no use of worryin’. We can’t blast ourselves out o’ this without riskin' the schooner. We ought to be thankful we frmoe in gen lie. There ain’t a plank started. The floe'll fend us off. There ain't euay big chunks enny way near us aft. I.tiok —to make a decent landin’— is all we see:! an’ It’ s my hunch it’s cornin' our way.” Uis “ hunch'' was correct. Though they did not actually make the little bay on which thp treasure beech de bouched. they fetched up near It agniust a broken bill o f Ice that bad lodged on the sharp slopes of a little promontory, tanking the conaerllow without further damage than a spot ting of the forward cod of their en casing floe, with hardly a Jar to the Karluk. Lund sent men ashore over the Ice. rlliublug to the promontory crags with hawsers by which they tied sp schooner, floe and all. to the land. If the broken hill suffered further catas trophe, which did not seem likely. Its fragments would fnil upon the floe. In cas® ef emergency Lund ordered men told off day und night to stand by the hawsers, to cast loose or cut, as the extremity needed. It was dark before they were snugged. The men volunteered, through HAnsen. to commence digging that night by the light o f ' ig fires, so crazy were they at the nearness of the gold. Bnt Lund forbade It. "You'll work reg'lar shifts when yon git started." he said. “ Au' you won't start till termorrer. We've got to stand by the ship ternlght until we And out by momln' how snug we're goln' to he berthed." All night long they lay in a pan demonium o f noise. After a while they would become used to It »< do rhe womers In a stampmlP. hut that night It deafened them, sept them awoke and alert, fearful with the tre mendous cannonading. The blr o f the frost made the timbers of the Ki rluk creak and Its thrust continually worked among th e stranded masse« r -o groaning th u n d e r* and shrill shoulders, slim, defiant. Gradually b is features crinkled into a grin. "1 believe you would," he aald Bl last. "An' I'd hate to fix you tba way I would TuinuUa. But. mind yon. If I don’ t git a definite promise out of him that rlugs true, I'll have to stow him somewhere». Where they won't find film. An' that won't be on board ship." The girl's fare softened. "You said you played fair," she said with a sigh of relief. She stepped to the door, opened It, and called for Ta- ntada. The Japanese appeared almost Inetautly. Lund closed the door be hind him sad locked It "You knew there's a patrol earnin' op. Tamada?" he asked. “ A Jap pa trol ?" grindings, while the s*rf ever boomed on the resonant sheets ef Ice. D owd came before they were aware of It, a sudden rush af tight that dyed " T e n ." the Ice I d every hae ef red aad orange, "What do you Intend fellin’ 'em If that tipped the frozen ceast with they rome on hoard?" harms of ruby flame that flared like "Nothing, If I can help It. I think beacons and gilded the crests o f the I eaa. I am not friendly with Japanese long swells, tinging all their world with government. R would be bad for roe a wild, unnatural glory. tf they find me. One time I belong Lund, striding the deck, his red Pregrewdve Party In Japan. I make beard Iced with his breath, suddenly m»ch talk. Too murh. The govern stepped and stared talo the east. ment say 1 am too progressive." There. In the very eye of the dawn, Rniney Imagined he caught a glint was a trail ef smoke, like a plume o< humor In Tanindn's eyes as he made agulnst the flaming, three-quarters cir his clipped syllables. cle o f the rising sun ! "So, I leave my country. Suppose Lund's face, on which the bruises I go on steamer I think that govern were fast fading, changed pnrple- ment tlier stop me. I think even In hlack with rage. He whirled trpoti Bandy, gaping near, and ordered hhn to fetch Ids binoculars. Through them he stared Wing at the smoke. Then, he turned to the girl and Rainey. "Come down Inter the cabin," he said. “ W ell need all onr wits. That's a patrol boat, Japanes-e. for a million! None other this far west. An' It's d— d fnnn.v It should come up right at this mlnntt. W e're made the trip on schedule time, an’ here they show. But we'll let that slide. W e're got to think fast. They’ll board us. They'll overhaul us lookin’ for seal pelts. At least I hope so. ‘‘ W e're got none. Our hunters an' eur rifles an’ shotguns’ll prove onr claim to he pelagic scalers. We got to trust they believe us. If there Is a hide aboard or a club, or a sign of a dead seal on the beaches they'll nail us. They may ennyway, Just on suspi cion. “ It’s lucky we didn’t start mussln' up that beach. But they'll go orer everything. I know ’em. They claim to own the seas hereabouts, an' they're cockier than ever, since the war. Rainey, you got to git busy on the log. If yore father didn't keep It up, Miss Peggy, so much the better. If he has, you got to fake It someways, Rainey. “I’m Slmir.r, get me, ar.tll we’ re clear of ’em. An’ you, Rainey, are Doc (.’ arisen. Nothin’ must show in the log about enny deaths.” "But w hy?" asked the girl. “ Why do we have to masquerade If we But Peggy Simms Was Between Him i and ths Door. haven’t touched the seals?" Lund harked at her: Cnlifornla they mny make trouble, It "I gave you credit for sharper wits," they find me. So I gn sumpan. Some lie said. "W e’ve got to have every times Japanese cross to California in thing so reg’lar they ran’t find an ex sumpan.” cuse for haulin’ us In an’ settin’ tire ‘‘That’s right,” said Rniney. He h.\d to the schooner. They’d do it In a handled more than one story of Jap Jiffy. We got to show 'em our clear anese crews landing on some d r e ance papers, an’ we've got to tally up portion o f the const to avoid Immiv a- all down the line. Rainey ain't on the tion laws and stenmer fnres. G< ne- lly ship’s books— (.’ arisen Is. Lund ain’t they were rounded up after tfxir hut Simms is. I’ m Simms. An’ you” perilous, daring crossing o f the P ik lie. —lie stopped to grin at her— "you're TamadH’s story held the elements of my daughter. I’ll dissolve the rela truth. Even Lund nodded In reserved tionship after a while. I'll promise you affirmation. that. An’ I'll drill the men. They “ Also I ship on Knrluk as cook be know what's ahead of 'em if the Japs cause o f perhaps trouble if some one gll suspicious. knew me In Snn Francisco. I think "That ain't the worst of It! They much better If they do not see me. may know whnt we’re after. If they I hove a plan. Also I want my share do, we're goners. Ever occur to yon, o f go’ ri. Suppose that gunboat find me, Rainey, that Tamada, who Is a deep find out about gold, they will not give one. may have tipped off the whole me reward. You do not know Japanese. thing to his ronsul while the srhoop-er Tlier will put me in prison. It will was at San Francisco? He was along he suggest f me. because I am of the last trip. He'd know the approxi daimio hlooif’—Tnmndn drew himself mate position. Might have got rhe up slightly as he claimed Ids nobility right Aggers e*t o' the log, him —“ that I make hari-kari. Thnt I do havin' file rnn ef the eaWn. A cable not wish. I am Progressive. I much would do the r e « . He'll git his rather cook on hoard Karluk and get whack ont of It. with the order of the my share of gold.” Golden ( ’hrysanthemmn or some jlg- Lund surveyed him moodily, half arlg to boot, as' gtt even with the convinced. The girl wag all eager anwovgl. way he feels fo'srd onr outfit for'ard, that ain’t hlti soar too sweet to him.” “ What is your plan, Tnmnda?” “ W e’re time on that log,” cut The suggest!*» held a foomtatlon of In L«ad. “ Git busy. Rainey. Look c o n Tle t+ n n fer Ralaey. Ho had thought sf the consnl. IJe had always sensed ■ nxMig Csrlson’s stuff. He may have depths In Tnmndn's reserve. It looked kept one. Itofte up one o f ’em, an’ hum the ether. Now then, Tamada, plsnslhle. Land rose. "IT! §x Tamada." he said. But the dope out yore schem e; it’s got to be a girl stopped him. fi«tli Lund aod the jsirl were laugh "Ton don't know that's trne. Ts msda has hem wonderful—to me ing when Rainey came out Into the What do yen latend to do with him?'' main cahin agsrin with the records. 'T il imike sp my mind hetwe*n here Tnmnda had disappeared. <TO HH C O N T IN U E D .) and the galley," said Lund grfrnly "This ts my third time of tackling this "Harum-Soarnm." Island an' no Jap Is go!n’ to stand be Hamm «a ru m Is a perfectly good tween me an' the gold, thin trip Why. | word used In connection with a person even If he ain’ t blown « 1 us, lie'll give wha Is exceedlnul* wild, rerkless or ttie whole thing nway. If he didn't ibourhtless. The word probably orlgl- want to they'd make him come through sated from a combination of the two If they laid their eyes on him. They're English verbs, "bare," to excite or got more tricks than a Chinese man | Worry, and ''« » r e ," to frighten. Locke. dnrln to make a man talk. Stands’ te In hi* " B s s m . t on F.rtucstlnn," use» reason he'll tell 'em. If he can talk 1 "hare'- as s verb In this manner: when they git here." he added om "T o •hare’ and rate them Is not to Inousl.v, standing half-way between tefieh hut to vex them.” the table and the door of the corridor, In this country, It Is generally sup his hand opening and closing sngges posed that "harum-scarum" Is an tlvely. “ The crew'd settle his hash Americanization, due probahly to If I didn't. They ain't fools. They Washington Irving's use of It I d hla know what's ahead of 'em In Japan. “ Alhambra,” where lie wrote: Ton, Rainey, git busy with that log "From a walk, the horse soon That gunboat'll have a boat alongside passed to a trot, from a trot to a gal this floe inside of ninety mlnnlts.” lop and from a gallop to a harum- But I’ egg.v Simms was between him scarum scamper." and the door. "Ton shan't do It,” she said, her • Similar. eyes hard as flints. 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